Bill Text: NY A00895 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 895 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires the chairman of NYC transportation authority to promulgate rules and regulations providing for certain means of transportation to be utilized at the request of paratransit-eligible persons.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to corporations, authorities and commissions [A00895 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A00895-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           895
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 14, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. M. G. MILLER -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Corporations, Authorities and Commissions
        AN ACT in relation to requiring the chairman of the New York city trans-
          portation authority to promulgate rules and regulations providing  for
          certain means of transportation to be utilized at the request of para-
          transit-eligible persons
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The chairman of the New York city transportation  authority
     2  shall promulgate rules and regulations providing for the use of specific
     3  vehicles  upon  the  request  of a paratransit-eligible person utilizing
     4  paratransit services of the authority, provided,  however,  such  person
     5  shall submit to the chairman, written medical proof provided by a physi-
     6  cian  licensed  pursuant  to article 131 of the education law, on a form
     7  provided by the authority, that such vehicle is medically  necessary  to
     8  transport such person.
     9    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00140-01-9